Archives for March 2007

Billy Mays Oxiclean Outtakes

Click it, you know you want to!

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Free Remote Control Via the Web!

Here’s a company doing something really slick: giving away remote control services over the Internet for FREE! Now it is free for only personal use: if you use it for commercial purposes, you need to purchase a license. Each session can be 30 minutes in duration and you are allowed to use 10 hours of [...]

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Utility Review: SWI – System Information for Windows

AIDA32 use to be my dearest love for system information, until it turned into Everest Home and then it vanished from the freeware scene into payware. The Ultimate edition is $30 up front, with $20/year maintenance to get updates. They recently offered an “Engineer” edition that is $199/year. However, maybe you want something that is [...]

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Windows Activation Attacked Again

Amazingly, pirates have once again claimed victory over Windows Vista’s activation requirements. The hack centers around SLP (System Locked Preinstallation) or OEM copies. Basically, if you have the “Dell edition” of Vista it will not require activation on Dell hardware. Well, some crafty people have figured out that by editing BIOS strings you can make [...]

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Response to “Windows Vista: I’m Breaking up with You”

Update 3/13/07: Chris Pirillo recently wrote an article for the magazine Computer Power User. In this April 2007 issue, Chris wrote an article called “An Open Letter to Jim Allchin”. In this article he states: “I’ve been using Vista pretty much exclusively for the past few weeks and have had my fair share of ups [...]

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The Final Chapter on Windows XP Images

Recently, I rebuilt my company’s standard Windows XP Ghost image and decided investigate the HAL issue once again. I wrote how to make universal images by forcing the APCI HAL. Perhaps, however, you are a “best practices” kind of fellow and rather not force an APCI HAL, yet want a universal image. With a little [...]

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Combating Image Spam

Spammers are ingenious little devils. One piece of spam that always has been near impossible to filter out is image spam. Quite simply, image spam is where they make an image with the spam message inside. Since most spam analyzers only look at text, not images, you get the spam in your mail box. To [...]

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